The Art Life

The IFC theater in the Village is hosting a week-long David Lynch film festival. Highlights have included Lynch's early student films (Lynch was unmistakenly Lynch from the very beginning) and the theater premiere of "David Lynch: The Art Life," a brilliant and illuminating examination of what drives America's most creative filmmaker and visual artist. Tomorrow: a new print of "Eraserhead," which astounded me when I first saw it as the midnight movie at the Elgin, also in the Village, nearly forty years ago. I've come full circle.